Wednesday, May 09, 2012

RoboConundrums

Despite yesterday's somewhat dampening headline : Pierre Poutine robocalls trail goes cold in Saskatchewan, the main story here is not that Elections Canada's Al Mathews was unable to secure phone records from a proxy server company in Saskatchewan a whole freakin year after the fraudulent election calls were made.

Why is one of the three CIMS reports downloaded by Andrew Prescott - phone numbers identifying supporters and non-supporters - now missing from CIMS?

How did Poutine manage to crack the Guelph CIMS database in order to upload a list of 6,738 phone numbers to RackNine to send voters to the wrong polling stations?

And the biggie : Is Prescott, who has cancelled further interviews with Elections Canada, 'Poutine' or is he being framed or is he merely the tip of a previously unsuspected and ongoing elections fraud iceberg in 200 ridings across Canada?

Some scandals, too big, maybe clog up the brains of the collective media.

In Internet-land, when a troll uses their own IP, and a similar troll shows up right after using a proxy, that's known as "gotcha" territory. Maybe not solid enough for a court, but in the realm of reasonableness, it's pretty obvious.

'K, Toe, don't make me defend CBC. I turned on the radio earlier and they were talking about card tricks and when I checked in again just now it was puppets. However ... Terry Milewski broke the story on how the people who were Con-called re wrong polling stations had been previously Contacted and tagged as non-Cons, and Leslie MacKinnon is spending all day every day in court on the Etobicoke missing and extra voter registrations. Especially I think Terry's interviews with real people in their homes which aired on TV probably helped to make it real to more viewers.So not MIA, just not revolutionary. ;-)

Anon : Yeah, who picked that headline, eh? CBC and Postmedia/Ottawa Citizen went with it.

Saskboy : Yeah, story too big and loose with no clear narrative yet.Also ... for a country whose interest in participating in democracy does not extend much past 60% of us voting every four years - who wants to hear that even that doesn't work?Alternate narrative ... elections, democracy based on equal parts law and honour system - can't work w/o either and vulnerable to internal attack from those who value neither.

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